DUSHaNBE, May 21, 2015, Asia-Plus - A party dedicated to a creative work of internationally known writer and poet Timour Zulfiqorov will take place at the Russian Drama Theater named after Valdimir Mayakovsky in Dushanbe on May 23.

Russian singer Irina Dmitriyeva Vann will perform love songs by Timour Zulfiqorov.

Born on August 17, 1936, Timour Zulfiqorov is internationally known Russian/Tajik poet, playwright, and novelist.  He was born in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

Russia’s publishing house, Khudozhestvennaya Literatura, in 2010 nominated the novel by Timour Zulfiqorov “Stoyashchiy i Rydayushchiy sredi Begushchikh Vod” (Standing and Sobbing in the Rushing Waters) for a Nobel Prize in Literature.

Written in 1993, “Stoyashchiy i Rydayushchiy sredi Begushchikh Vod” is a novel about love during civil war.